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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

internalism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English internal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English internalism From internal + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis
    • In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism. 2008 August 30, Josefa Toribio, “State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:

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Relateds

externalism · internalist